Senior bioinformatics experience
More than 10 years of experience supporting multidisciplinary academic research projects and bioinformatics platforms.
Bioinformatics support for your research
Bioinformatics support for your research
Practical bioinformatics, data analysis, research data organization, training, and reproducible workflow support for laboratories, research teams, and life sciences projects.
From study design to reproducible analysis
With BIRD
Bioinformatics consultation, workflow development, training, troubleshooting, documentation, and scientific mentorship.
About BIRD
Practical support for research teams
BIRD is a Montréal-based bioinformatics consulting service supporting academic and life sciences laboratories, scientists, research teams, and students. We help teams make complex biological, omics, sequencing, and research data analyses clearer, reproducible, well documented, and easier to transfer to students, trainees, and collaborators.
Why BIRD?
Senior expertise for clear, reproducible analysis
BIRD combines technical bioinformatics expertise with practical guidance, hands-on training, and clear documentation so teams can understand, reproduce, and continue their analyses with confidence.
Reproducible workflows
Emphasis on clear project structure, documented methods, transferable scripts, and analysis handover.
Training that builds autonomy
Practical teaching and mentorship for scientists, students, research staff, and interdisciplinary teams.
Responsible data practices
Support for organizing metadata, access-controlled files, sensitive biological data, and responsible research workflows.
Specialized expertise includes:
PhIP-seq
RNA-seq
scRNA-seq
WGS/WES
GWAS/CNV
Metagenomics
10X Genomics
HPC/Slurm
Biological databases
Workflow documentation
Services
How BIRD can support your team
Practical support for research teams working with life science, biological, omics, sequencing, and research data, from planning to analysis, documentation and training.
Study Design & Bioinformatics Consultation
Bioinformatics guidance at the planning stage, including sample and metadata structure, replicate strategy, comparison design and analysis strategy.
Omics & Sequencing Data Analysis
End-to-end support for omics and sequencing projects, including quality control, exploratory analysis, WGS, WES, RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ChIP-seq, amplicon-seq, small RNA-seq, methyl-seq, ATAC-seq, PhIP-seq, metagenomics, metabarcoding and resistome analysis, with interpretation and preparation of clear figures, tables and reports.
Pipelines, Data Organization & Troubleshooting
Development, optimization and troubleshooting of Python, R and Bash workflows, with support for HPC and job-scheduler environments, including Slurm/Torque, automation and reproducible project structure.
Training for life scientists & research teams
Practical training in Python, R, Bash, bioinformatics and data-analysis fundamentals, sequencing basics, biological databases, file formats, research data organization, HPC and Alliance cluster basics, adapted to the learner’s background and project needs.
Mentorship & Scientific Guidance
Scientific and technical guidance for students, trainees and research teams, including project planning, code review, data interpretation, workflow documentation and knowledge transfer.
Research Data Management
Support for organizing research data, metadata, documentation, access-controlled files and project structure to improve clarity, reproducibility and workflow handover.
Training
Capacity building for scientists and research teams
Training can be offered as one-on-one sessions, group workshops, or project-based mentoring using examples that match your team’s data and goals.
- Python, R, and Bash for scientists
- Basic bioinformatics concepts
- Sequencing technologies and NGS basics
- FASTA, FASTQ, BAM, VCF, and GTF/GFF files
- NCBI, SRA, GEO, GO, BLAST, and public databases
- Linux and Bash for researchers
- HPC and Alliance cluster basics
- Research data organization and reproducibility
- Workflow documentation and handover
- Practical project-based training
Formats
Flexible ways to work together
Free initial consultation30-minute orientation meeting to discuss project goals, data type, timeline, current challenges and possible next steps.
Hourly supportFocused support for troubleshooting, technical questions, code review, short-term project needs and practical bioinformatics guidance.
Fixed-price packagesStructured support for defined analysis projects, workflow audits, study design consultations, documentation or training sessions.
Customized workshopsPractical workshops tailored to a team, course, research group or specific dataset.
One-on-one trainingPersonalized training adapted to the learner’s project, background and skill level.
Monthly lab supportOngoing collaboration for teams that need regular bioinformatics guidance, troubleshooting, training and workflow continuity across their research projects.
Contact
Let’s discuss your project or training needs
Services are provided independently through BIRD and can be tailored to each laboratory’s needs, budget, and timeline. Institutional logos, confidential information, and unpublished project details are not used without prior authorization.